success! I no longer owe 70k to Google
My firebase bill is usually $50/month, but I was surprised to see a ~$70,000 bill in one day.
Now Google is mentioning in 10 days it will be sent to debt collection
Can anyone help??
tamara
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tamara
@tamarajtran
Joined January 2021
- My firebase bill is usually $50/month, but I was surprised to see a ~$70,000 bill in one day. Now Google is mentioning in 10 days it will be sent to debt collection Can anyone help??
- Replying to @tamarajtranThe project had been downgraded for some time but when I randomly upgraded the project in October, there was a bug in the code from an Upwork engineer. The app accidentally stored 1PB of data in GCS despite only running on Oct 18. I woke up to my card declining a $61,200 charge
- once your first app goes viral, crazy numbers don't shock you anymore
could you imagine your app doing 1m users in an hour LMFAO - Replying to @tamarajtranThe engineer resolved it and brought the cost down (in the process incurring another $7k day) but I’m still on the hook for the debt. I’ve never incurred such large charges in the past, and this situation was beyond my control.
- Replying to @tamarajtranI'm not able to get in touch with anyone except the automated chat, which just sends me a template-like email from a different name every 7 days (Venkatesh, Sai, Praveen, Abdullah). I'm also not eligible to upgrade to a higher support tier.
- Replying to @tamarajtranI've been in touch with support for several months, but there seems to be internal confusion about the billing case, and they rejected my adjustment/credit request. They were telling me to reach out to my account manager or FSR, but never connected me with one.
- Replying to @tamarajtranthank you to @femtechie @mbleigh_ @JamesTamplin and many other employees at Google for reaching out, alerting this issue, and helping to get it resolved. and thank you to the 3M people who saw my tweet and helped raise it to light
- A year ago, I built one of the fastest growing social apps ever It hit #1 on the App Store in over 60 countries including the US. On Day 1, it grew from 0 to 1M users. By Day 3, it had >8M users. Highest k-factor of almost any app I’ve seen
- 1/ Blobs unlock unprecedented scaling for L2s, but have huge gas spikes and price volatility. They lack financialization like hedging and fractionalization. I've just quit my job at Apple to build blobspace derivatives & contribute to the ETH ecosystem: mirror.xyz/0x1Ca8D5E43A19…
- Replying to @SOBaldrickwho’s my account manager? where do I find them?
- Replying to @ralessan1this was month after we all stopped working on the project, no one was monitoring
